GACE Birth Through Kindergarten (701) study guide
GACE Birth Through Kindergarten (701) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The GACE Birth Through Kindergarten (701) assessment is the Georgia educator-certification test for candidates who want to teach and care for children from birth through age five in Georgia public school prekindergarten and early-childhood settings. It is designed for aspiring and practicing early-childhood educators, including those seeking initial certification or adding the field, and it is administered by the state's designated testing contractor rather than by any single university or program. The GACE Birth Through Kindergarten (701) study guide has 6 sections and about 2,170 words.
01Child Development, Learning, and Assessment
Know the major developmental domains (physical, cognitive, language, social-emotional) and the theorists most often attached to them: Piaget (sensorimotor through preoperational stages, schema, object permanence, symbolic play), Vygotsky (zone of proximal development, scaffolding, social learning), Erikson (trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs.
346 words, about 2 min02Curriculum, Instruction, and the Learning Environment
Early childhood curriculum should be integrated, play-based, and child-centered , built on children's interests and concrete experience. Know developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) : age-appropriate, individually appropriate, and socially/culturally appropriate.
314 words, about 2 min03Language, Literacy, and Communication
Language develops through receptive (understanding) before expressive (producing) skills. Know the components: phonology (sounds), morphology (word parts), syntax (grammar), semantics (meaning), and pragmatics (social use).
295 words, about 1 min04Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies
Young children build number sense through concrete experiences before symbols. Know the counting principles : one-to-one correspondence, stable order, cardinality, order irrelevance, and abstraction.
291 words, about 1 min05Health, Safety, Nutrition, and Physical Development
Know supervision, ratios, and environmental safety (safe sleep, choking hazards, safe toys, playground inspection). Understand handwashing , toileting, diapering, and sanitation procedures.
312 words, about 2 min06Family and Community Partnerships
Family engagement is a partnership , not a one-way flow of information. Understand Bronfenbrenner's ecological model : the child is at the center of nested systems (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem), and family is the most influential microsystem.
612 words, about 3 min